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The typical image of Dark Age Britain is that after the Romans left, developments came to a halt until the Anglo-Saxons arrived. Drawing on archaeological and other sources, the author of this study argues that the political structures persevered to become those of the Middle Ages.

Table of contents

Politics and culture in late-Roman Britain; the origins of the sub-Roman kingdoms; the character and context of British dynastic foundation; civitates and kingdoms; sub-kingdoms, estates and towns in sub-Roman Britain; the culture of sub-Roman Britain; the British Kingdoms. Appendices: where and when did Gildas write?; the chronology of early Christian monuments in sub-Roman Britain.